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Váňa
Váňa is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bohumil Váňa Bohumil Váňa (17 January 1920 in Prague – 4 November 1989 in Prague) was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Table tennis career From 1935 to 1955 he won an incredible 30 medals in singles, doubles, and team events ... (1920–1989), Czech table tennis player * Jaroslav Váňa, Czech slalom canoeist * Josef Váňa (born 1952), Czech jockey * Michal Váňa (born 1963), Czech footballer {{DEFAULTSORT:Vana Czech-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Váňa
Josef Váňa (born 20 October 1952) is a Czech steeplechase jockey, horse breeder and trainer. As the eight-time winner of the Velká pardubická steeplechase, he is considered one of the greatest personalities of the horse racing sport. In 2016 he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in Czech Senate as candidate of ANO 2011. Biography Váňa was born and spent his childhood is Slopné in the Zlín Region. He began his career as a horse breeder and keeper in Tlumačov. Later he moved to Hrubý Jeseník, where he worked as a construction worker at the Praděd TV tower and administrator of a ski center. He took part in his first horse race in 1979 in Boskovice with a mare ''Kalina''. It was also the first win of his career. At the age of 28 he resumed his horse racing activities in Czechoslovakia and Germany and soon after that, in 1985, he competed in his first ''Velká pardubická'' steeplechase with ''Paramon''. He finished second. Váňa won his first ''Velká pardubická'' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Váňa
Michal Váňa (born 13 May 1963) is a former football player from Czechoslovakia, who played professionally in Europe and Asia. Early career Váňa played for numerous clubs in his native country of Czechoslovakia, including Dukla Prague, Slavia Prague and Benešov. Career in Asia Váňa was part of the Singapore M-League, which won the 1994 Malaysia Cup. He disappeared in mid-season, and remains a fugitive. The ex-Malaysia Cup star was arrested and charged with six counts of match-fixing. He escaped from the country before he could be tried in court, leaving on a different passport after his original one had been confiscated. According to a Singapore newspaper, Váňa's Bayshore Park condominium was almost completely emptied. He was given a lifetime ban from football by FIFA, which was later annulled. He was last seen in Singapore on 28 September 1994, two days before his trial was to begin. In 2011, an Australian production company named Touchwood Productions claimed to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumil Váňa
Bohumil Váňa (17 January 1920 in Prague – 4 November 1989 in Prague) was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Table tennis career From 1935 to 1955 he won an incredible 30 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. This included 13 gold medals. He also won five English Open titles. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References 1920 births 1989 deaths Czech male table tennis players Czechoslovak table tennis players Sportspeople from Prague {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Váňa
Jaroslav Váňa is a Czechoslovak retired slalom canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He won two medals at the 1951 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Steyr Steyr (; Central Bavarian: ''Steia'') is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd l ... with a gold in the C-1 team event and a silver in the C-1 event. References * Czechoslovak male canoeists Czech male canoeists Possibly living people Year of birth missing Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships {{Czech-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Surname
Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bridegroom's surname. Given names In the Czech Republic, names are simply known as ''jména'' ("names") or, if the context requires it, ''křestní jména'' ("Christian names"). The singular form is ''jméno''. Generally, a given name may have Christian roots or traditional Slavic pre-Christian origin (e.g. Milena, Božena, Jaroslav, Václav, Vojtěch). It used to be a legal obligation for parents to choose their child's name from a list that was pre-approved by the government. Special permission was necessary for other names with exceptions for minorities and foreigners. Since the Velvet revolution in 1989, parents have had the right to give their child any name they wish, provided it is used somewhere in the world and is not insulting or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
